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WooCommerce Cookbook

By : Patrick Rauland
Book Image

WooCommerce Cookbook

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WooCommerce Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling HTTPS on specific pages


Whenever users enter sensitive information, you should protect that information by making the page secure (HTTPS). This information could be credit card details, passwords, health information, or personal information such as social security numbers. By using HTTPS, you prevent other people from reading the communication between your website and the end user.

One of the pages automatically created when you install WooCommerce pages is a My Account page. Since users could enter a password on that page, it's worth securing that page.

Getting ready

Before you can enable HTTPS on any page, you need to have an SSL certificate installed on your site. You can contact your host to help you with this.

How to do it…

There's an easy-to-use plugin to help us with this. We'll have to install the plugin and then configure it to protect pages on our site by performing the following steps:

  1. In the WordPress admin, click on the Plugins menu and then click on Add New.

  2. Search for the...